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1 love letter of the second youth
If I had been brave, the ending would not have been different.
If you insisted at the time, the memories would not be unusual.
In the end I still didn't say, you still ignored.
"His Smile", written by Reimi Horikawa, blends with the pure whiteness of the whole world and is soaked with Watanabe Hiroko's love and longing for the dead.
"Love Letter" is probably Shunji Iwai's most famous work, and most people also like Shunji Iwai because of "Love Letter", and my memories of him end here. Fujii's letter to Hiroko Watanabe ended there.
"How are you?" "I'm fine." This pure love stopped here, and those whispered calls and murmurs became the pure white in the hearts of somewhat careless girls. The fledgling film director Shunji Iwai was also labeled by fans as the "godfather of pure love movies".
"Love Letters" period played Shunji Iwai, just in his early 30s, in the TV circle for many years, although the camera experience is good, but the origin is unknown.
Once inspired by chance to give birth to "Love Letters", When Shunji Iwai was sorting out his belongings from high school, he looked through the letters written to him by his classmates. At that time, Shunji Iwai, who was still in middle school, and his classmates made an appointment to watch the newly released movie, but the freezing weather and slippery road made him accidentally fall, and he was rolled to his feet by the bus, and he was in a very dismal mood when he was bedridden at home. Unexpectedly, a few days later, the letters of the classmates quietly arrived, filling a whole brown envelope.
Years later, looking at those letters with childish handwriting, the teenager in his heart slipped out of a corner of the atrium, and the throbbing of youth never went far. So he decided to write this "love letter" about "memories".
The release of "Love Letters" has blown a different and fresh wind to the Japanese film industry, and the story of light innocence has been crying for generations. After that, Shunji Iwai successively filmed "April Story" and "Flowers and Alice" about crush and first love, but neither of them met the response of "Love Letter". It was a tribute to youth, and later he desperately wanted to get rid of the label of "the godfather of pure love", and the story of the devil replaced the angel.
2 Angels to demons, the reversal of the spiritual world
"If I were a black angel, would you like to come with me to see the end of the world?"
Compared with pure love, Shunji Iwai, as a creative director, is more fascinated by realistic and repressed stories.
Stills of the bundle of love
Few people know that Shunji Iwai's debut work is actually "The Binding of Love". The heroine of the story is always using ropes to tie everything around her. The busy husband ignored his wife's "obsessive-compulsive tightness" and regretted it until he found out, when he could do nothing but tie her up a little tighter according to the doctor's instructions.
The poetic "murder" scene reflects Shunji Iwai's real-life confusion. "Because of being busy and unable to take care of each other, because of themselves, the other party has endured a lot of pressure and unhappiness", all directly in the movie.
The tiny negative emotions that have appeared in life have been preserved and amplified by him, "I want these voices to be like the aether, constituting everything about Lily Week." Maybe making movies and drawing gives me the skills to express the impressions in my head in a form that I can record when the music comes along.
"All About Lily Week", which swept many awards, also stems from this memory preservation. Shunji Iwai, who has just entered college, left his hometown and came to a completely unfamiliar environment, and the isolation of loneliness became the prototype of the male protagonist in the movie, Yuichi Hayami.
In "All About Lily Week", Shunji Iwai especially likes to photograph the teenager who turns from good to evil in this way: the teenager under the oblique sun is outlined by the phnom penh, and the expression on his face is blurred by the gray silhouette. Almost all of them are backlit lenses, probably because he not only wants to shoot people in the backlight, but also wants to capture the humanity in the shadows that cannot be illuminated.
3 Moments and eternal attachments
If the film is not successful, will you still be a director? The answer, of course, is yes.
In fact, as early as junior high school, Shunji Iwai, who did not know what the lens was, was excited about some things that "can express eternal moments" and had a strong urge to record it. On his first day of college, he escaped the entrance ceremony and enrolled in the school's film association, and the next day he began to manipulate the machine, walking and shooting on the street, soaking in the film association all day, immersing himself in the world of Ichikawa Kun, Ozu Yasujiro, and Kurosawa Akira, the previous masters.
Majoring in oil painting, he had to take a year off because he had left too many classes, but after returning to school, he became more "unprofessional", and at that time he had begun to contact some directing jobs in society. When you graduate, you are faced with the same choice as all college students: find a good job, or stick to your dreams?
If there is no heartfelt love, it is probably difficult to insist on one thing for so many years, and for twenty years, Shunji Iwai has always maintained a momentum for "creation".
When he was conceiving, he sorted out a lot of material, and then told his friends about it, and when he changed from a gentle person to a leper, and when he began to write a story, he was immersed in his own world, and the time he sat in the taxi was also used to type. He often got inspired to brush his teeth in the morning, so he immediately began to paint, and did not find that his face had not been washed until 12 o'clock in the evening.
Indulging in the world of light and shadow, using the language of the lens to express his inner world, he is like a child, silently resisting the dark laws of the rough adult world.
4 In a divided world, the young man's heart has not gone far
"Shunji Iwai's films are based on a cinematic world that is cut off from reality, and is a game attitude." Japanese critic Shikata Inuhiko once said this about Shunji Iwai.
This comment is pertinent, Iwai Shunji's teacher said that he was a lonely and autistic little boy when he was studying, and did not even attend the graduation ceremony, and Iwai Shunji's story, whether it is pure love or "Dream Traveler" about the theme of mental patients, "Swallowtail Butterfly" that excavates human nature, cruel and violent "Everything About Lily Week", the protagonist is almost in a state of self-isolation, so the audience is happy to compare them with Iwai Shunji himself. He himself confessed, "These are all distilled from my heart and life experience, it is myself." ”
Shoulder-length hair, love jeans and other relaxed casual wear, over fifty years old, still maintain a passion for creation. Watching Shunji Iwai's movies is like facing his heart, his movies are talking to another self, he said, I am often immersed in my own world until others interrupt.
From the crush of youth, to the teenager bound by love, to the pain of life upwards, more than twenty years have passed, in fact, there has not been much change in the core of Iwai Shunji's spiritual world, and in his heart, he has always lived in the young teenage Fujii tree.
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